7.1.3-RC1

• 🎉 New:
  • Check:
    • We now extract the field after the account number on US checks. The name in the result is checkNumber. Note that this name is only based on common usage and not on any enforced standard.
• 🚀 Improvements:
  • Check:
    • Updated US check field documentation.
• 🐞 Bug fixes:
  • Check:
    • Fixed a bug in the implementation of the US check standard which lead to rejection of valid checks.
    • Fixed a bug in Check Scanner RTU-UIv2 that delivered (invalid) results when documentDetectionMode was set to = detectAndCropDocument.

7.1.2

• 🎉 New:
  • General:
    • Added property isInterrupted to SBSDKCameraSession to indicate if the camera session was interrupted by the system.
  • Document Scanner:
    • Added property documentPreviewImageSizeLimit in SBSDKDocumentPage to limit the size of the document preview image.
• 🚀 Improvements:
  • Document Scanner:
    • Rebalanced the internally used photo capture settings to better match the photo quality priorization modes. The mode speed now is significantly faster, the mode balanced is a bit faster and the mode quality is a bit slower with the best possible image quality.
• 🐞 Bug fixes:
  • Document Scanner:
    • Fixed an issue on simulators where the shutter button was missing in the RTU-UI document scanner.
  • Document Data Extractor:
    • Fixed a bug where the incompleteValidation status was incorrectly returned in the document data extractor (RTU-UI v2).
  • Check Scanner:
    • Fixed a bug where the "no check" dialog was displayed when camera permission was denied in the check scanner (RTU-UI v2).
  • General:
    • Fixes a bug with scanned documents cloning when using per-file encryption.

7.1.1-RC3

• 🎉 New:
  • General:
    • Added property isInterrupted to SBSDKCameraSession to indicate if the camera session was interrupted by the system.
  • Document Scanner:
    • Added property documentPreviewImageSizeLimit in SBSDKDocumentPage to limit the size of the document preview image.
• 🚀 Improvements:
  • Document Scanner:
    • Rebalanced the internally used photo capture settings to better match the photo quality priorization modes. The mode speed now is significantly faster, the mode balanced is a bit faster and the mode quality is a bit slower with the best possible image quality.
• 🐞 Bug fixes:
  • Document Scanner:
    • Fixed an issue on simulators where the shutter button was missing in the RTU-UI document scanner.
  • Document Data Extractor:
    • Fixed a bug where the incompleteValidation status was incorrectly returned in the document data extractor (RTU-UI v2).
  • Check Scanner:
    • Fixed a bug where the "no check" dialog was displayed when camera permission was denied in the check scanner (RTU-UI v2).
  • General:
    • Fixes a bug with scanned documents cloning when using per-file encryption.

7.1.1-RC2

• 🎉 New:
  • General:
    • Added property isInterrupted to SBSDKCameraSession to indicate if the camera session was interrupted by the system.
  • Document Scanner:
    • Added property documentPreviewImageSizeLimit in SBSDKDocumentPage to limit the size of the document preview image.
• 🚀 Improvements:
  • Document Scanner:
    • Rebalanced the internally used photo capture settings to better match the photo quality priorization modes. The mode speed now is significantly faster, the mode balanced is a bit faster and the mode quality is a bit slower with the best possible image quality.
• 🐞 Bug fixes:
  • Document Scanner:
    • Fixed an issue on simulators where the shutter button was missing in the RTU-UI document scanner.
  • Document Data Extractor:
    • Fixed a bug where the incompleteValidation status was incorrectly returned in the document data extractor (RTU-UI v2).
  • Check Scanner:
    • Fixed a bug where the "no check" dialog was displayed when camera permission was denied in the check scanner (RTU-UI v2).
  • General:
    • Fixes a bug with scanned documents cloning when using per-file encryption.

7.1.1-RC1

• 🎉 New:
  • General:
    • Added property isInterrupted to SBSDKCameraSession to indicate if the camera session was interrupted by the system.
  • Document Scanner:
    • Added property documentPreviewImageSizeLimit in SBSDKDocumentPage to limit the size of the document preview image.
• 🚀 Improvements:
  • Document Scanner:
    • Rebalanced the internally used photo capture settings to better match the photo quality priorization modes. The mode speed now is significantly faster, the mode balanced is a bit faster and the mode quality is a bit slower with the best possible image quality.
• 🐞 Bug fixes:
  • Document Scanner:
    • Fixed an issue on simulators where the shutter button was missing in the RTU-UI document scanner.
  • Document Data Extractor:
    • Fixed a bug where the incompleteValidation status was incorrectly returned in the document data extractor (RTU-UI v2).
  • General:
    • Fixes a bug with scanned documents cloning when using per-file encryption.

7.0.6-Beta3

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7.0.6-Beta2

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7.0.6-Beta1

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7.1.0-RC10

• 🎉 New:
  • General:
    • Added property hardwareButtonsEnabled to SBSDKUI2CameraConfiguration. If enabled, it allows zooming using camera control button (iPhone 16 series).
    • Added property fpsLimit to SBSDKUI2CameraConfiguration and SBSDKUI2DocumentScannerCameraConfiguration to limit the rate of detections per second in normal performance mode.
    • Added property didEndZoomHandler to SBSDKZoomingImageScrollView.
    • Added analytics support with new classes: SBSDKAnalyticsManager, SBSDKAnalyticsEvent, SBSDKAnalyticsFeature, SBSDKAnalyticsCategory, SBSDKAnalyticsEventName, SBSDKAnalyticsEventFactory, and SBSDKAnalyticsSubscriber for tracking and managing SDK usage analytics.
  • Barcode Scanner:
    • Added new class SBSDKBarcodeItemSelection for managing collections of selected barcode items.
    • Added property identityString to SBSDKBarcodeItem to uniquely identify barcodes across detection frames.
    • Added property selectedZoomFactor to SBSDKUI2BarcodeScannerUIResult to retrieve the zoom factor used for the barcode scanning.
    • SBSDKBarcodeItem has a new field rawBytesEncodings that contains the precise character encoding information of rawBytes.
    • SBSDKBarcodeItem has a new field structuredAppendInfo. The Structured Append mode can be used to split a message across mulitple barcodes. If present, the corresponding information is returned.
    • SBSDKBarcodeItem has a new field globalIndex which allows to identify a barcode across multiple frames.
    • SBSDKBarcodeScannerConfiguration has a new field accumulationConfigwhich allows the accumulation of barcodes over multiple frames in live mode.
  • Check Scanner:
    • Introduced a new Check RTU-UI v2 component, see SBSDKUI2CheckScannerViewController.
    • Introduced a boolean captureHighResolutionImage in Check Scanner Classic UI. If disabled, the scanning is performed on video frames. When enabled, a high-resolution photo is captured and used for scanning, which may result in slower scanning speed.
  • Document Data Extractor:
    • Introduced a new Data Extractor RTU-UI v2 component, see SBSDKUI2DataExtractorViewController.
    • Added support for the front side of many more drivers license models.
    • Added (partial) support for parsing of German addresses. For the respective ID cards, address parsing can be enabled via a new SBSDKDeAddressParserConfiguration. If the parsing was successful, the parsed address is stored as a child document (similar to MRZ).
    • Added support for multiple new document types:
      • ID Cards from Brazil, Hong Kong, Macao, China
      • Chinese Entry & Exit Permits
    • The Document Data Extractor now detects whether a document is in focus already and only starts the heavy recognition pipeline when the image quality is suitable.
    • Added a new method setGlareDetectionConfiguration method in SBSDKDocumentDataExtractorConfigurationBuilder to fine-tune the detection of glare over the fields.
    • Added a new method setAutoFocusConfig in SBSDKDocumentDataExtractorConfigurationBuilder to precisely control the exclusion of frames that lack focus.
    • The Document Data Extractor can now detect glare in images. If fields are obstructed by glare, these fields will be returned with a validation status of SBSDKGenericDocumentFieldValidationStatus.obstructed.
    • Added case errorStillFocussing to SBSDKDocumentDataExtractionStatus.
    • Returns the issuing series of German ID Cards as part of the returned document as the Series field.
    • Introduced a Document Verification API including document semantics verification capabilities.
  • Document Scanner:
    • Added property showReviewScreenOnStart to SBSDKUI2DocumentScanningFlow. If enabled, the scanner automatically navigates to the review screen when the flow starts.
    • Added property openReviewAfterEachScan to SBSDKUI2CameraScreenConfiguration. If enabled the review screen is opened after each addition of a new page.
    • Added property showLastPageWhenAdding to SBSDKUI2ReviewScreenConfiguration. If enabled the review screen will be opened showing the last page.
  • MRZ Scanner:
    • Added support for non-ICAO conformant machine readable zones on US border crossing cards.
  • Vehicle Identification Number Scanner:
    • Introduced a new VIN RTU-UI v2 component, see SBSDKUI2VINScannerViewController.
• 🚀 Improvements:
  • Barcode Scanner:
    • Added NSCopying support to SBSDKBarcodeTrackedViewPolygonStyle and SBSDKBarcodeTrackedViewTextStyle.
    • SBSDKBoardingPassBarcodeDocumentParser now supports up to version 8 of the IATA-BCBP standard.
    • vCard document parser was improved.
  • Check Scanner:
    • If image cropping is enabled and is successful, check recognition is performed on the crop instead of the original image.
  • Credit Card Scanner:
    • Added support for credit cards with an expiry date above the card number.
    • Added support for credit cards with a name written in two lines.
  • Document Data Extractor:
    • General speed improvements.
    • Now detects whether a document is in focus already and only starts the heavy recognition pipeline when the image quality is suitable.
    • Classification for documents with MRZ is more stable.
    • Added normalization before date recognition.
    • More consistent usage of common field types.
    • Improved maiden name processing for DePassport and DeIdCard.
    • Now also supports the new German ID card format issued starting 2024.
  • Document Quality Analyzer:
    • Improved performance. Note: document quality scores may slightly change for the same input images when compared to the previous version of the DoQA.
  • Document Scanner:
    • Improved landscape-orientation layout of RTU-UIv2 screens.
    • Increased performance for Document Scanner algorithms.
    • The zoomed page view in the RTU-UIv2 review screen now closes when you finish zooming while being below the minimum zoom value.
  • Medical Certificate Scanner:
    • Date recognition in Medical Certificate forms is now based on the Scanbot OCR Engine and shows significant quality improvements.
  • MRZ Scanner:
    • On US border crossing permits, the document number is now returned in the correct field.
    • Dates in MRZ now also support parsedData correctly.
  • Scanbot OCR Engine:
    • Improved performance of the Scanbot OCR engine.
  • Text Pattern Scanner:
    • General speed improvements.
    • Now supports XNNPACK for faster inference.
• 🐞 Bug fixes:
  • General:
    • Fixed some rare crashes in Credit Card Scanner, Document Data Extractor and MRZ Scanner.
  • PDF Generation:
    • Fixes a bug where PDFs with embedded OCR were invalid.
  • Barcode Scanner:
    • The carrier identifier for MaxiCode mode 3 might be encoded by using different codewords. Now all possible codewords are checked that encode the carrier identifier.
    • vCard document parser now correctly processes the "FN" key as FormattedName.
    • Fixed a bug in the Barcode Scanner RTU-UI v2 where the result callback was called multiple times.
  • Credit Card Scanner:
    • Fixed a crash if document detection was not successful due to an OK_BAD_ASPECT_RATIO status.
    • Setting the confirmation method to interpolate when scanning credit cards could result in unsuccessful recognitions although all data was extracted and verified.
    • Return correct scanning status if no fields are recognized.
  • Document Data Extractor (DDE):
    • When IssuerNumber is excluded on European health insurance cards, this no longer leads to the IssuerName being incorrectly excluded.
    • MRZ fallback now also works when no accepted document types are selected.
  • Document Quality Analyzer:
    • Fixed quality estimation for rotated images.
  • Document Scanner:
    • Fixed a bug in RTU-UI V2 Document Scanner where the document could not be captured in auto snap mode, when enabledInAutoSnappingMode is set to false in SBSDKUI2ShutterButton.
    • Fixed a bug in RTU-UI V2 Document Scanner Swift UI component SBSDKUI2DocumentScannerView where the completion handler is not called when the view is a root view. Additionally, the view is now prevented from being automatically dismissed upon completion.
    • Fixed a bug in RTU-UI V2 Document Scanner where auto rotation was applied if no document was detected.
  • Image Editing:
    • Fixed a rare crash when the screen orientation changes.
  • MRZ Scanner:
    • Fixed an issue causing nil to be returned as a confidence of empty fields.
  • PDF Image Extractor:
    • Fixes wrong orientation of extracted images when the PDF page has a transform applied.
  • Storage Crypting:
    • Fixed data corruption issues in AES encryption/decryption that could result in corrupted or partially corrupted files.
• ⚠️ Breaking changes:
  • General:
    • Replaced all occurrences of the deprecated AVCaptureVideoOrientation enum by an equal enum named SBSDKVideoOrientation.
  • Barcode Scanner:
    • Removed properties isSelectable and isAutomaticSelectionEnabled from SBSDKBarcodeTrackingOverlayConfiguration.
    • Renamed parameter isSelected to isHighlighted in tracking overlay methods.
    • Changed delegate method signatures in SBSDKBarcodeTrackingOverlayControllerDelegate:
      • Removed didChangeSelectedBarcodes method.
      • Added shouldHighlight method to determine barcode highlighting state.
      • Added proposedStyle parameter to style-related delegate methods.
  • Check Scanner:
    • Renamed enum SBSDKCheckRecognizerState to SBSDKCheckScannerState.
      �- Renamed the enum case recognizing to scanning in SBSDKCheckScannerState.
    • Removed acceptedCheckTypes from SBSDKCheckScanner and `SBSDKCheckScannerViewControl...

7.1.0

• 🎉 New:
  • General:
    • Added property hardwareButtonsEnabled to SBSDKUI2CameraConfiguration. If enabled, it allows zooming using camera control button (iPhone 16 series).
    • Added property fpsLimit to SBSDKUI2CameraConfiguration and SBSDKUI2DocumentScannerCameraConfiguration to limit the rate of detections per second in normal performance mode.
    • Added property didEndZoomHandler to SBSDKZoomingImageScrollView.
    • Added analytics support with new classes: SBSDKAnalyticsManager, SBSDKAnalyticsEvent, SBSDKAnalyticsFeature, SBSDKAnalyticsCategory, SBSDKAnalyticsEventName, SBSDKAnalyticsEventFactory, and SBSDKAnalyticsSubscriber for tracking and managing SDK usage analytics.
  • Barcode Scanner:
    • Added new class SBSDKBarcodeItemSelection for managing collections of selected barcode items.
    • Added property identityString to SBSDKBarcodeItem to uniquely identify barcodes across detection frames.
    • Added property selectedZoomFactor to SBSDKUI2BarcodeScannerUIResult to retrieve the zoom factor used for the barcode scanning.
    • SBSDKBarcodeItem has a new field rawBytesEncodings that contains the precise character encoding information of rawBytes.
    • SBSDKBarcodeItem has a new field structuredAppendInfo. The Structured Append mode can be used to split a message across mulitple barcodes. If present, the corresponding information is returned.
    • SBSDKBarcodeItem has a new field globalIndex which allows to identify a barcode across multiple frames.
    • SBSDKBarcodeScannerConfiguration has a new field accumulationConfigwhich allows the accumulation of barcodes over multiple frames in live mode.
  • Check Scanner:
    • Introduced a new Check RTU-UI v2 component, see SBSDKUI2CheckScannerViewController.
    • Introduced a boolean captureHighResolutionImage in Check Scanner Classic UI. If disabled, the scanning is performed on video frames. When enabled, a high-resolution photo is captured and used for scanning, which may result in slower scanning speed.
  • Document Data Extractor:
    • Introduced a new Data Extractor RTU-UI v2 component, see SBSDKUI2DataExtractorViewController.
    • Added support for the front side of many more drivers license models.
    • Added (partial) support for parsing of German addresses. For the respective ID cards, address parsing can be enabled via a new SBSDKDeAddressParserConfiguration. If the parsing was successful, the parsed address is stored as a child document (similar to MRZ).
    • Added support for multiple new document types:
      • ID Cards from Brazil, Hong Kong, Macao, China
      • Chinese Entry & Exit Permits
    • The Document Data Extractor now detects whether a document is in focus already and only starts the heavy recognition pipeline when the image quality is suitable.
    • Added a new method setGlareDetectionConfiguration method in SBSDKDocumentDataExtractorConfigurationBuilder to fine-tune the detection of glare over the fields.
    • Added a new method setAutoFocusConfig in SBSDKDocumentDataExtractorConfigurationBuilder to precisely control the exclusion of frames that lack focus.
    • The Document Data Extractor can now detect glare in images. If fields are obstructed by glare, these fields will be returned with a validation status of SBSDKGenericDocumentFieldValidationStatus.obstructed.
    • Added case errorStillFocussing to SBSDKDocumentDataExtractionStatus.
    • Returns the issuing series of German ID Cards as part of the returned document as the Series field.
    • Introduced a Document Verification API including document semantics verification capabilities.
  • Document Scanner:
    • Added property showReviewScreenOnStart to SBSDKUI2DocumentScanningFlow. If enabled, the scanner automatically navigates to the review screen when the flow starts.
    • Added property openReviewAfterEachScan to SBSDKUI2CameraScreenConfiguration. If enabled the review screen is opened after each addition of a new page.
    • Added property showLastPageWhenAdding to SBSDKUI2ReviewScreenConfiguration. If enabled the review screen will be opened showing the last page.
  • MRZ Scanner:
    • Added support for non-ICAO conformant machine readable zones on US border crossing cards.
  • Vehicle Identification Number Scanner:
    • Introduced a new VIN RTU-UI v2 component, see SBSDKUI2VINScannerViewController.
• 🚀 Improvements:
  • Barcode Scanner:
    • Added NSCopying support to SBSDKBarcodeTrackedViewPolygonStyle and SBSDKBarcodeTrackedViewTextStyle.
    • SBSDKBoardingPassBarcodeDocumentParser now supports up to version 8 of the IATA-BCBP standard.
    • vCard document parser was improved.
  • Check Scanner:
    • If image cropping is enabled and is successful, check recognition is performed on the crop instead of the original image.
  • Credit Card Scanner:
    • Added support for credit cards with an expiry date above the card number.
    • Added support for credit cards with a name written in two lines.
  • Document Data Extractor:
    • General speed improvements.
    • Now detects whether a document is in focus already and only starts the heavy recognition pipeline when the image quality is suitable.
    • Classification for documents with MRZ is more stable.
    • Added normalization before date recognition.
    • More consistent usage of common field types.
    • Improved maiden name processing for DePassport and DeIdCard.
    • Now also supports the new German ID card format issued starting 2024.
  • Document Quality Analyzer:
    • Improved performance. Note: document quality scores may slightly change for the same input images when compared to the previous version of the DoQA.
  • Document Scanner:
    • Improved landscape-orientation layout of RTU-UIv2 screens.
    • Increased performance for Document Scanner algorithms.
    • The zoomed page view in the RTU-UIv2 review screen now closes when you finish zooming while being below the minimum zoom value.
  • Medical Certificate Scanner:
    • Date recognition in Medical Certificate forms is now based on the Scanbot OCR Engine and shows significant quality improvements.
  • MRZ Scanner:
    • On US border crossing permits, the document number is now returned in the correct field.
    • Dates in MRZ now also support parsedData correctly.
  • Scanbot OCR Engine:
    • Improved performance of the Scanbot OCR engine.
  • Text Pattern Scanner:
    • General speed improvements.
    • Now supports XNNPACK for faster inference.
• 🐞 Bug fixes:
  • General:
    • Fixed some rare crashes in Credit Card Scanner, Document Data Extractor and MRZ Scanner.
  • PDF Generation:
    • Fixes a bug where PDFs with embedded OCR were invalid.
  • Barcode Scanner:
    • The carrier identifier for MaxiCode mode 3 might be encoded by using different codewords. Now all possible codewords are checked that encode the carrier identifier.
    • vCard document parser now correctly processes the "FN" key as FormattedName.
    • Fixed a bug in the Barcode Scanner RTU-UI v2 where the result callback was called multiple times.
  • Credit Card Scanner:
    • Fixed a crash if document detection was not successful due to an OK_BAD_ASPECT_RATIO status.
    • Setting the confirmation method to interpolate when scanning credit cards could result in unsuccessful recognitions although all data was extracted and verified.
    • Return correct scanning status if no fields are recognized.
  • Document Data Extractor (DDE):
    • When IssuerNumber is excluded on European health insurance cards, this no longer leads to the IssuerName being incorrectly excluded.
    • MRZ fallback now also works when no accepted document types are selected.
  • Document Quality Analyzer:
    • Fixed quality estimation for rotated images.
  • Document Scanner:
    • Fixed a bug in RTU-UI V2 Document Scanner where the document could not be captured in auto snap mode, when enabledInAutoSnappingMode is set to false in SBSDKUI2ShutterButton.
    • Fixed a bug in RTU-UI V2 Document Scanner Swift UI component SBSDKUI2DocumentScannerView where the completion handler is not called when the view is a root view. Additionally, the view is now prevented from being automatically dismissed upon completion.
    • Fixed a bug in RTU-UI V2 Document Scanner where auto rotation was applied if no document was detected.
  • Image Editing:
    • Fixed a rare crash when the screen orientation changes.
  • MRZ Scanner:
    • Fixed an issue causing nil to be returned as a confidence of empty fields.
  • PDF Image Extractor:
    • Fixes wrong orientation of extracted images when the PDF page has a transform applied.
  • Storage Crypting:
    • Fixed data corruption issues in AES encryption/decryption that could result in corrupted or partially corrupted files.
• ⚠️ Breaking changes:
  • General:
    • Replaced all occurrences of the deprecated AVCaptureVideoOrientation enum by an equal enum named SBSDKVideoOrientation.
  • Barcode Scanner:
    • Removed properties isSelectable and isAutomaticSelectionEnabled from SBSDKBarcodeTrackingOverlayConfiguration.
    • Renamed parameter isSelected to isHighlighted in tracking overlay methods.
    • Changed delegate method signatures in SBSDKBarcodeTrackingOverlayControllerDelegate:
      • Removed didChangeSelectedBarcodes method.
      • Added shouldHighlight method to determine barcode highlighting state.
      • Added proposedStyle parameter to style-related delegate methods.
  • Check Scanner:
    • Renamed enum SBSDKCheckRecognizerState to SBSDKCheckScannerState.
      �- Renamed the enum case recognizing to scanning in SBSDKCheckScannerState.
    • Removed acceptedCheckTypes from SBSDKCheckScanner and `SBSDKCheckScannerViewControl...